PDF and doc / docx document types not supported as attachments to Expense Reports

Summary

The expense report printed from the system using “Print Preview with Attachments” shows blank pages in place of the so called “unsupported” attachment formats (PDF and doc / docx).

Content

This has been a situation we’ve had to face since we started fusion expense implementation years ago.
Oracle has acknowledged the issue but unfortunately never fixed it, with no other work around than printing / saving these attachments manually one by one in addition to printing the report.
This was clearly not ideal and extremely surprising considering
-    pdf and doc / docx may be the most common file formats used by companies around the world